From September 8-12, 2017 in Paris, M&O will unveil the works designed by WOHA, Designers of the Year ASIA 2017, and the winners of the Talent Awards Asia 2017. Always at the front of promoting emerging designers, M&O will present the award winners to exhibit their works and meet with the international design communities in the September edition. 
Philippe Brocart, Managing Director of SAFI, is proud to put the M&O Talent Awards Asia 2017 under the limelight. Brocart says that having the spotlight on the M&O Talent Awards Asia will offer visitors an opportunity to meet and discover some of the best design talents from the 
Asia-Pacific, as well as to understand the multi-faceted creative landscape in one of the most exciting regions. “The Designer of the Year Asia and the Rising Asian Talents will demonstrate their ambitious capability from architecture to interior design, product design, and bespoke art and craft” said Brocart.
WOHA, the world-renowned, Singapore-based architectural is the Designer of the Year Asia 2017. The practice’s award-winning projects, celebrated for its integration of environmental and social principles into its design practice, include PARK- ROYAL on Pickering, Oasia Hotel Downtown and School of the Arts in Singapore; 
Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali, Indonesia; among others. At the September fair, WOHA will be in a 90sqm showcase in Hall 7. It will feature four curated collections of edition pieces ranging from furniture, lights, carpets, accessories, table and bath ware.
Founded by Mun Summ Wong and Richard Hassell, WOHA has developed projects in Southeast Asia, China, and Australia, stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. As master planners, architects, interior and industrial designers, WOHA create integrated environments, designing not just the building itself but also the objects within this environment and thereby creating an uninterrupted, consistent design language. 
WOHA’s signature is a unique vision of practicality and invention. Their architecture is renowned for its constant evolution and innovation, a strong awareness of local context and tradition, intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas. On the occasion of M&O September 2017, Mun Summ Wong and Richard Hassell will present WOHAbeing’s collection of furniture, lights, carpets, accessories, table and bathware.
For the last 22 years, Maison&Objet successfully facilitated numerous partnerships between designers and businesses. For WOHA, they were instrumental in finding the firm the right partners to work with. Besides WOHA, the winners of the Rising Asian Talent Awards 2017 will also be exhibiting their works and meeting with the international design community at the September show. The winners are ADesign Studio from Australia, Lim+Lu from Hong Kong, Jinggoy Buensuceso from the Philippines, Kamaro’an from Taiwan and Atelier 2+ from Thailand.
M&O PARIS, a leading international business platform for honoured celebrated and emerging designers as well as curated acclaimed showcases. Maison&Objet is the biannual trade show for the high-end design and luxury industry which takes place every January and September.